Six Years ago on 6 July 2014, Popular Ghanaian hiplife musician, Theophilus Tagoe popularly known as Castro disappeared with Miss Janet Bandu at the Ada Estuary whiles on holiday with the Gyan brothers and friends. The pair were reported to have drowned following a jet ski accident in Ada Estuary while on holiday. The jet ski … Read more
The Castro and Janet Bandu’s disappearance saga won’t be ending anytime soon—as Peace Fm has managed to pull Alberta, the friend of Janet Bandu who invited her to Ada for an interview—and she was really beating about the bush.
According to Alberta, Janet Bandu did not know Castro from anywhere—but Janet just jumped at the back of Castro’s JetSki even though they had been told, one person per JetSki. And at that point, Castro even asked Janet Bandu to get down but she wouldn’t listen…
It is shocking that, Janet who did not know Castro from anywhere as claimed by Alberta would just jumped on Castro’s JetSki—this doesn’t really add up.
Alberta used her interview on Peace Fm to addressed rumours that she is Asmaoah Gyan’s girlfriend, saying, there is no truth in that. She also denied that they were some sort of groupies…
As mentioned above, she made it clear that Castro did not know Janet Bandu from anywhere; and that they just met at Ada for the first time through her.
As the interview came to a near end, lawyer-Maurice Ampaw (the lawyer who has promised to reveal the truth) also called to disclose certain new information. He stated that Alberta was lying in her submission, especially on her claim that she slept in a different from Janet Bandu all alone—and not that the girls were sharing their rooms with the men.
Interestingly, Alberta mentioned that she has not been contacted by the police to write a statement or to be questioned—this is also shocking, considering the fact that she is a key witness and the person who invited Janet Bandu over to Ada.
Even though the news of Castro’s disappearance which quickly turned into death appeared online at around 14:00 GMT, we’ve so far learnt that, Castro and Janet may have gone missing far earlier—at around 10am since their empty Jet Ski was found near an island at around 11-12:00 GMT.
It has been alleged that Castro De Destroyer was wearing a life jacket but Janet Bandu who sat at the back of the Jet Ski was not wearing any. And the question has been, if indeed he was wearing a life jacket, how come he has gone missing (drowned)?
Interestingly, the above question paved way for several assumptions such as, Castro took off his life jacket to save Janet and consequently, Castro the rescuer got drowned with Janet.
Castro and Janet Bandu’s death or missing (if you are one of those who like such to be said) has been surrounded by countless theories—both reasonable and unreasonable. The assumptions are countless but the facts are just a few, making the disappearance or death a mystery.
Some have come out to say, the two are with a certain sea goddess (popularly known as Maame Water in Ghana)—who even told us such a spirit or personality exists? Again, the existence of such a spirit has not been established, except being claimed by some people who present themselves as having some sort of connection with this spirit…
The absence of any logical, reasonable and scientific explanation as to what happened means, the absurd theories will continue to unfold.
Apart from the two having been said to be ‘chilling’ with Maame Water while we worry about them on earth, others have come to say, they must have been abducted. And the question should be, by whom and for what?
There is a group of people who also believe, the whole Castro and Janet’s disappearance was an attempt at pulling a publicity stunt for Castro—but it got out of hands, making it difficult for Castro and Janet to come out of their hiding place. Pretty plausible but hugely ridiculous…
The Many Blame Games
For whatever disaster that befalls anyone in this world, someone must be blamed and if we cannot reasonably find anyone to blame, we sometimes even push the blame on the back of nature.
As the two families sit on each other’s neck, shifting blame from one corner to another, the general Ghanaian population also needed to blame someone. As usual, it started from blaming President Mahama and to be frank, I don’t know how President Mahama can be blamed for anything in connection with this…
But then, if Jordan Ayew has been brought in as the cause of Castro’s death, it is not shocking that President Mahama has been apportioned a blame too.
According to those blaming Jordan Ayew, if the footballer had passed the ball to Asamoah Gyan in the Ghana vrs Germany match, Asamoah would have scored—and that would have meant that, Ghana would have still be part of the on-going 2014 Brazil World Cup.
And if Ghana was in there, Asamoah Gyan would have been in Brazil by now. Meaning, there was no way Castro would have been dead or be at Ada because it was Asamoah Gyan who invited or took him there. What a long chain of events just to blame Jordan Ayew…
Ever so often something happens in this world that defies all the laws of logic and reason. In such instances we fall for spiritual explanations, as we humans tend to attribute the things we do not understand to powers beyond us.
Since the disappearance of Castro and Janet Bandu, we have all seen how the landscape has become saturated with talk of the spiritual; the fetish priests, pastors, and ‘marine spirits’ all coming out to explain to us what exactly happened to Castro. Most of them are incredible and easy to dismiss, yet now one has emerged from the unlikeliest of sources which is not so easy to dismiss as nonsense.
And this ‘prediction’ or premonition or whatever you might like to call it, came from Castro himself! People started talking about it not long after the incident, yet it was only after listening to the song today did I realise how eerie the whole thing is.
Somewhere last year Castro released another of his numerous hit songs, this one he called ‘She dey do me’. The entire track is about how a certain lady ‘dey do am’, yet it is the introduction to the track, rendered in Ga, which defies belief, particularly when held up against recent events.
For the Ga speakers amongst us, the intro goes something like…
‘kw3 hi gbee faa mli zelezele
ni hina emli ng))m) mi mpele mpele
no hew) faal3 k3mi aya eee
hidi sikli t3 s3 mi titi amane eee’
For the non-Ga speakers, listen closely. Castro is saying here, literally that ‘He’s fallen into a river, he’s seen how enjoyable it is down there, and he’s struggling against it. The river should carry him away, he’s followed something sweet and has fallen into trouble’
It is day 5 and Castro De Destoyer’s body or that of her alleged girlfriend-Janet Bandu who was with him on the Jet Ski has not been found.
We’ve heard the spiritualists, the fetish priests and even the prophets talk about what they can see in the spiritual world—the world they claim is beyond us, therefore beyond any common sense, reason, logic or scientific understanding.
However, we have a video of an eye witness who says, together with his mates, they were those who found an empty Jet Ski on the sea—and called the resort that hired the Jet Ski out to tell them about the Jet Ski.
According to the young man, he was working on one of the many Ada islands with his friends when they saw a Jet Ski on the water—with no one riding it. They pulled the Jet Ski out of the water and wondered who might have left it on the water.
They saw a sticker of the resort that hired the Jet Ski out on the machine, so they took the Jet Ski home and called the resort to tell the manager about the found Jet Ski.
Interestingly, when they found the Jet Ski, there was no key in the ignition—meaning whoever was using it had parked it on the water and taken off the key.
The young man mentioned that, when they called the resort and told the manager that they’ve found a Jet Ski belonging to him, the manager said he had not lost any Jet Ski. It was when they insisted that it was his, because they can see his sticker on it—and after having given him the identification number of the Jet Ski that the manager checked the number against his hiring records to say, Castro hired that particular Jet Ski.
So it was then that the manager realized Castro must have been missing in the water and sent some of his boys out to where the island where the guys who found the Jet Ski were based (That is my understanding of the guy is saying in the video).
Asamoah Gyan has finally come out to speak about the disappearance of musician-Castro De Destoyer and Janet Bandu, both of whom are feared dead.
In his statement, Gyan continues to hold out hope that Castro and Janet might still be found, whilst also expressing his support and prayers to the two families involved.
The Black Stars captain is a long time friend of the musician, and was actually present during the events on the fateful day that led to the likely demise of Castro and Janet.
The Statement was signed by Anim Addo, spokesperson for Gyan and released on his official site.
The young woman who was riding on a Jet Ski with Ghanaian musician-Castro De Destroyer who got drowned together with Castro has been named as Janet Bandu. In fact, certain reports say, Janet was the girlfriend of already married Castro De Destroyer.
Few hours ago, a certain ‘Maame Water agent’/spiritualist came out to say, Castro and Jane are not dead yet—as many fear.
And that, Jane was sent by marine spirits to bring Castro to his ‘Maame Water’ wife which she has done. Ridiculous right? (CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON THIS).
You can imagine how the parents of Jane who was drowned with Castro yesterday will be feeling—not only do they have death hanging on their heads, their daughter is being tagged a devil-Marine ‘Maame Water’ agent.
The parents together with the Uncle of Jane Bandu spoke to Asempa Fm today, stating that, they did not know their daughter was a friend of Castro De Destroyer or Asamoah Gyan.
To them, when they heard the news that a certain Jane had drowned at Ada with Castro, it did not occur to them that it was their daughter until the full name and photos of their daughter appeared in newspapers this morning.
Search is still ongoing and the bodies of both Janet Bandu and Castro De Destoyer have still not been found.
We hear Asamoah Gyan together with others paid another spiritualist who oversees the affairs of the water body where Castro and Jane drowned to pour libation and make a request to the gods for Castro to be found.
